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[Hammock Camping] Re: New Years

Tim, You Gators have lots of wants . You might check with Josh and Leigh at the Hiker Hostel and see if they will be watching the game. Some years they

Message 1 of 15
, Dec 28, 2007

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Tim,

You Gators have lots of wants <grin>. You might check with Josh and
Leigh at the Hiker Hostel and see if they will be watching the game.
Some years they have been at Springer and some years they haven't.
They have a web site http://hikerhostel.com/ , do shuttles at times,
and probably have a good handle on the water situation. They are only
5 miles from Woody Gap on GA60. We are getting rain now in Atlanta,
have had some, and look to get some more... but I don't know what the
water sources are like on the AT. I'm still open to dropping your car
off and taking you to a trailhead on the Georgia AT on New Year's Day,
but I'm heading home to Atlanta after that.

--- In hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com, "Stuhr, Tim" <tstuhr@...> wrote:
>
> I'm planning on being there.
>
> I also want to do a hike from Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday to Friday
> morning. If I didn't go until Wednesday I would want to hole up
> somewhere to catch the Gators in their bowl game starting at 1 PM on New
> Years' Day. Any suggestions on the hike or the holing up? Maybe I
> could start Wednesday at Unicoi Gap and hike back to Neel's Gap. Any
> water reports for this section or any interested in joining me?
>
> Tim (Stoikurt)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Womble
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:21 AM
> To: hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Hammock Camping] Re: New Years
>
> I'm planning on being there. Last weather forecast didn't seem too
> bad and last word I've heard on the spring near the shelter was that
> it was dry. The info on the water is getting dated but unless I hear
> otherwise I plan on bringing all the water I will need.
>
> Dave Womble
> aka Youngblood AT2000
> designer of the Speer Segmented Pad Extender, SnugFit Underquilt, and
> WinterTarp
>
> --- In hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com, "C C Wayah" <ccwayah@> wrote:
> >
> > Who plans on being at Springer this year
> > for New Years..
> > Ed will you be there?
> > I haven't seen much talk about this?
> >
> > Rogene
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>

Stuhr, Tim

Thanks Dave, I appreciate your offer. I know someone just west of Blairsville that I d like to visit so I may check with them and see if they are able to help

Message 2 of 15
, Dec 28, 2007

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Thanks Dave, I appreciate your offer. I know someone just west of
Blairsville that I'd like to visit so I may check with them and see if
they are able to help out. Also thanks for the Hiker Hostel info, I'll
check with them too.

You Gators have lots of wants <grin>. You might check with Josh and
Leigh at the Hiker Hostel and see if they will be watching the game.
Some years they have been at Springer and some years they haven't.
They have a web site http://hikerhostel.com/ , do shuttles at times,
and probably have a good handle on the water situation. They are only
5 miles from Woody Gap on GA60. We are getting rain now in Atlanta,
have had some, and look to get some more... but I don't know what the
water sources are like on the AT. I'm still open to dropping your car
off and taking you to a trailhead on the Georgia AT on New Year's Day,
but I'm heading home to Atlanta after that.

--- In hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com, "Stuhr, Tim" <tstuhr@...> wrote:
>
> I'm planning on being there.
>
> I also want to do a hike from Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday to Friday
> morning. If I didn't go until Wednesday I would want to hole up
> somewhere to catch the Gators in their bowl game starting at 1 PM on
New
> Years' Day. Any suggestions on the hike or the holing up? Maybe I
> could start Wednesday at Unicoi Gap and hike back to Neel's Gap. Any
> water reports for this section or any interested in joining me?
>
> Tim (Stoikurt)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Womble
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:21 AM
> To: hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Hammock Camping] Re: New Years
>
> I'm planning on being there. Last weather forecast didn't seem too
> bad and last word I've heard on the spring near the shelter was that
> it was dry. The info on the water is getting dated but unless I hear
> otherwise I plan on bringing all the water I will need.
>
> Dave Womble
> aka Youngblood AT2000
> designer of the Speer Segmented Pad Extender, SnugFit Underquilt, and
> WinterTarp
>
> --- In hammockcamping@yahoogroups.com, "C C Wayah" <ccwayah@> wrote:
> >
> > Who plans on being at Springer this year
> > for New Years..
> > Ed will you be there?
> > I haven't seen much talk about this?
> >
> > Rogene
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>

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Ed Speer

Dave, I heard indirectly yesterday from Mountain Crossings that the spring was running again-probably from the rain a few days ago. Then it rained heavy here

Message 3 of 15
, Dec 29, 2007

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Dave, I heard indirectly yesterday from Mountain Crossings that the spring
was running again-probably from the rain a few days ago. Then it rained
heavy here yesterday, so I suspect the spring is fine now..Ed

I'm planning on being there. Last weather forecast didn't seem too
bad and last word I've heard on the spring near the shelter was that
it was dry. The info on the water is getting dated but unless I hear
otherwise I plan on bringing all the water I will need.

>
> A Whiteblazer who was on Springer a few days ago said it was running
> then, and there's been more rain since.
>

They were right, there was plenty of water.

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Rosaleen Sullivan

Hi, Gang- Well, I made it to Springer for New Year-sort of. Midnight struck while a small group of us were on our way up. The trip from where we were took

Message 7 of 15
, Jan 3, 2008

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Hi, Gang-

Well, I made it to Springer for New Year-sort of. Midnight struck while a
small group of us were on our way up. The trip from where we were took
longer than any of us anticipated. It was cold enough and late enough that
I went looking for a place to sleep and crawled into my sleeping bag. We
might have been able to visit briefly in the AM, but one of the group was in
a rush to leave due to the cold. I suspect it was the biting wind that put
the coldness over the edge. The night certainly was clear and beautiful,
and sleeping on a mountain top was a great way to start the year. I just
hope missing the gang and the cold are not signs of how the rest of the year
goes. So near, yet so far.

Cheers!

Rosaleen

Ed Speer

Sorry we missed you Rosaleen. Karen & I did leave early the next morning-it was just too cold to stand around & try to eat breakfast. But we greatly enjoyed

Message 8 of 15
, Jan 3, 2008

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Sorry we missed you Rosaleen. Karen & I did leave early the next morning-it
was just too cold to stand around & try to eat breakfast. But we greatly
enjoyed the sunrise from our hammocks! There were probably only 6 or so
hammockers this year-I guess the cold & wind kept others away. But like you
said, waking up on Springer Mtn on New Year's morning is too good to
miss..Ed

Well, I made it to Springer for New Year-sort of. Midnight struck while a
small group of us were on our way up. The trip from where we were took
longer than any of us anticipated. It was cold enough and late enough that
I went looking for a place to sleep and crawled into my sleeping bag. We
might have been able to visit briefly in the AM, but one of the group was in

a rush to leave due to the cold. I suspect it was the biting wind that put
the coldness over the edge. The night certainly was clear and beautiful,
and sleeping on a mountain top was a great way to start the year. I just
hope missing the gang and the cold are not signs of how the rest of the year

goes. So near, yet so far.

Cheers!

Rosaleen

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Dave Womble

Tim, Very windy. We didn t have a campfire as the signs were still in place about a campfire ban due to the extreme drought in the area. It was pretty damp

Message 9 of 15
, Jan 3, 2008

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Tim,

Very windy. We didn't have a campfire as the signs were still in
place about a campfire ban due to the extreme drought in the area. It
was pretty damp from the recent rains to the point that it was hard to
get stakes seated well were I set up but a ban is a ban and windy is
windy. There was a campfire going in the meadow with a group of folks
and I walked down there for a few minutes. That fire was dangerous to
stand around as it was a stream of sparklers at times that could blow
at most any direction at times and for quite a ways. There was one
thru-hiker I met on the summmit that finished that day and some that
were starting out on Jan 1st heading north. A few of us gathered in
the shelter and chatted in the dark for a while out of the wind.

The temperatures weren't too bad except for the wind chill, I think Ed
told me he measured 26F on his thermometer. And the wind direction
changed over night and caught me be surprise as it blew into the end I
had left open for easy entrance/exit. I had to change the flaps on my
WinterTarp after a while because of the way the wind was hitting my
insulation but after I did that I was protected well enough. The
wind, lack of a campfire, and early darkness dampened the socializing.
I retired fairly early even by my standards and got off of the
mountain early in the morning as well as the wind was still a problem
on the mountain and I needed to catch up with Ed and Karen in the
parking lot.

I'm not sure how many people were there all together. There were some
tents, some tarps, and about 8 hammocks.

Very windy. We didn't have a campfire as the signs were still in
place about a campfire ban due to the extreme drought in the area. It
was pretty damp from the recent rains to the point that it was hard to
get stakes seated well were I set up but a ban is a ban and windy is
windy. There was a campfire going in the meadow with a group of folks
and I walked down there for a few minutes. That fire was dangerous to
stand around as it was a stream of sparklers at times that could blow
at most any direction at times and for quite a ways. There was one
thru-hiker I met on the summmit that finished that day and some that
were starting out on Jan 1st heading north. A few of us gathered in
the shelter and chatted in the dark for a while out of the wind.

The temperatures weren't too bad except for the wind chill, I think Ed
told me he measured 26F on his thermometer. And the wind direction
changed over night and caught me be surprise as it blew into the end I
had left open for easy entrance/exit. I had to change the flaps on my
WinterTarp after a while because of the way the wind was hitting my
insulation but after I did that I was protected well enough. The
wind, lack of a campfire, and early darkness dampened the socializing.
I retired fairly early even by my standards and got off of the
mountain early in the morning as well as the wind was still a problem
on the mountain and I needed to catch up with Ed and Karen in the
parking lot.

I'm not sure how many people were there all together. There were some
tents, some tarps, and about 8 hammocks.